Florida Gas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Iran War Drives $1.46/Gallon Spike, Forcing Miami Drivers to Rethink Daily Costs
Florida motorists are paying more at the pump than at any point since July 2022 after a dramatic 40-cent single-week surge pushed the state average to $4.34 per gallon, a price spike directly tied to the ongoing US-Iran conflict and the sustained disruption of the Strait of Hormuz that has sent global oil markets into…
Rackspace Technology [NASDAQ: RXT] Jumps 12% After AMD Partnership for Enterprise AI Cloud Targeting Regulated Industries
Rackspace Technology surged more than 12% in trading after the cloud computing company announced a memorandum of understanding with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices [NASDAQ: AMD] to co-develop an enterprise AI cloud platform specifically designed for regulated industries and sovereign workloads, a market that has seen growing demand from financial services, government, and healthcare organisations seeking…
Trump’s Record-Low 37% Approval and Saudi LIV Golf Deal Deepen Republican Midterm Anxiety With Six Months to Go
President Donald Trump is heading into the final six months before the 2026 midterm elections carrying his worst approval rating of either presidential term, facing an electorate that overwhelmingly blames him for surging fuel costs and growing questions about whether his decision to host a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his own Virginia club this weekend…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Posts AWS Record as AI Spending Reaches $44 Billion in a Single Quarter
Amazon delivered a striking set of first-quarter 2026 results that underscored both the scale of its AI investment and its ability to generate growth across every major business segment simultaneously. Total revenue reached $181.5 billion, up 17% year-over-year and comfortably ahead of the $177.3 billion analyst consensus. Adjusted earnings per share of $2.78 demolished the…
Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) Posts Fastest Revenue Growth Since IPO as US Government AI Spending Accelerates
Palantir Technologies reported its strongest quarterly revenue growth since going public in 2020, with first-quarter 2026 revenue rising 85% year-over-year to $1.633 billion, well ahead of the $1.54 billion analyst consensus. Adjusted earnings per share of $0.33 beat the expected $0.28, and net income roughly quadrupled to $871 million, representing a 53% GAAP margin that…
S&P 500 Closes at Record High as Earnings Season and Falling Oil Prices Lift Market
US equity markets bounced back sharply from the geopolitical-driven selloff of Monday’s session, with the S&P 500 climbing 0.81% to close at a record 7,259.22 on Tuesday as falling oil prices and a series of solid earnings reports restored investor confidence. The Nasdaq Composite gained 1.03% to reach a new closing record of 25,326.13, while…
Senate Odds Even Out as Iran War Costs Republicans Their Midterm Safety Net
Control of the United States Senate is now statistically a coin-flip six months ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to prediction market data compiled by Kalshi, with traders placing the odds at roughly 50-50 between the parties after a dramatic shift in sentiment driven primarily by public opposition to the Iran war and its economic…
Foreign Policy Journal Calls US Iran Strategy “Blatant Failure”, Accuses Hegseth of Overestimating Regime Change Plan
A newly published editorial in the Foreign Policy Journal has delivered one of the harshest assessments yet of American strategy in the Iran war, describing the US campaign as a “blatant failure” and laying significant blame at the feet of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for overestimating Washington’s ability to achieve regime change without deploying ground…
Alphabet Surges 7 Percent as Google Cloud Grows 63 Percent and Search Queries Hit All-Time High
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL / GOOG) shares climbed approximately 7 percent in Thursday’s session after the company posted its most impressive quarterly results since the generative AI boom began. Google Cloud revenue hit $20.03 billion for the first quarter of 2026, a 63 percent year-on-year increase that more than doubled analyst expectations for the segment…
Alphabet (GOOGL) Enters Q1 Earnings With Record Cloud Backlog, Zero Sell Ratings and a Year of Market-Leading Gains
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL / GOOG) reports its first-quarter 2026 earnings on Wednesday April 29 as the strongest performer among the five Magnificent 7 companies announcing results this week, having roughly doubled in stock price over the past year and led the group year-to-date, a run built on Google Cloud’s extraordinary growth acceleration and a…
